Pointing and calling shifts perception and action from automatic processing to deliberate attention, reducing errors when autopilot is unreliable.

In 1994, combining pointing and calling cut railway errors from 2.38 to 0.38 per 100 actions, an…

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Giving yourself the feeling of a win before a positive behavior makes starting more likely.

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Point at the tempting behavior, say you will not do it, and state why that choice does not serve…

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Pointing directs visual attention to the precise target. Calling retrieves the relevant rule from…

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A physical finger point joined Japan’s call-and-response railway safety practice in the late 1920s.

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Shisa kanko, or “pointing and calling,” was formalized in Japanese railway manuals in 1913 as a…

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Build a habit by pointing at its cue, stating the action aloud, and naming the positive outcome…

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